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October 25: Saint Crispin's Day
Oct. 25th, 2005 07:56 pmToday, on the 25th of October, 2005, a grim milestone was reached.
Staff Sgt. George T. Alexander Jr became the 2,000 American soldier to die in Iraq.
There's nothing particularly special about the number "2000". Sgt. Alexander's sacrifice was not different from anyone else's. Someone who dies tomorrow will not be mourned any less by his or her family. Those who died last week did not make any lesser sacrifice in the name of duty and patriotism.
But we humans look for milestones. And we look for numbers and patterns. And the Universe is always willing to provide them for us.
Today is, as the blind irony of random chance would have it, St. Crispin's Day.
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Staff Sgt. George T. Alexander Jr became the 2,000 American soldier to die in Iraq.
There's nothing particularly special about the number "2000". Sgt. Alexander's sacrifice was not different from anyone else's. Someone who dies tomorrow will not be mourned any less by his or her family. Those who died last week did not make any lesser sacrifice in the name of duty and patriotism.
But we humans look for milestones. And we look for numbers and patterns. And the Universe is always willing to provide them for us.
Today is, as the blind irony of random chance would have it, St. Crispin's Day.
( Read more... )